My piece on Barry Goldwater and Bill Buckley, from the Fall 2008 Intercollegiate Review is now on-line at ISI’s web journal, First Principles.
For my take on the Old Right leaning of WFB Jr’s father, Will Buckley, see my review of a few months back of Reid Buckley’s An American Family. And for more on the [...]
Also newly in print, in the election special issue of Reason (otherwise known as the November 2008 issue), is my review of Grand New Party, by Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam.The boy wonders of The Atlantic make their case for “neoconservatism with a human face in action,” to which I say, “oh, hell no!”
Grand [...]
I have reviews in two journals out now: the Fall 2008 issue of The Intercollegiate Review (wherein I cover the late William F. Buckley’s Flying High: Remembering Barry Goldwater) and the out-now-or-soon-to-be issue of the University Bookman, guest edited by Bill Kauffman. My article in the latter is a review of Jim Reed, Senatorial Immortal, [...]
No, that’s not a new dating site for seniors. It’s just my way of calling attention to the addition of some of my older article (circa 2007) to The American Conservative’s public archives. I’m not sure exactly which pieces hadn’t been up before, but I’m pretty sure these have just been added:
“Ambivalent Prophet of Capitalism” [...]
My review of Reid Buckley’s history of his clan, An American Family: The Buckleys, is now on-line. I knew that William F. Buckley Sr. was very much a noninterventionist and man of the Old Right, but I didn’t know just how true that was until I read Reid’s book, which I highly recommend.
At some [...]
TAC began its summer break yesterday, after sending to print the new issue (Leon Hadar has the cover story, on the failure of nation-building in Afghanistan). While the other editors have had the good sense to disperse far and wide — with literary editor Freddy Gray getting as far as Rwanda — I’ll be lurking [...]
The last several days have been a sandstorm of activity for me, which is why, paradoxically, the blog has been so quiet. I’ve got several book reviews pending — one finished over the weekend, another undergoing a bit of polish, and the third under construction. On Monday morning, I gave a talk at [...]
The English-language Moscow alternative magazine that’s as much samizdat for the West as it is for Russians is under threat from the authorities. Mark Ames, editor and co-founder (with Matt Taibbi, lately of Rolling Stone) blogs about it here. (And here.)
There’s a campaign afoot to save the eXile, as an online zine if not a [...]
Cory Robin has some curious ideas about conservatism — apparently it’s a straight line of exploiters and insiders with persecution complexes from Burke and Maistre to Barry Goldwater — but his Nation review of several recent books about conservatism is worth reading for his exposure of Jacob Heilbrunn’s quote borrowing (some might say “plagiarism”), if [...]
The lefty magazine continues to give the Ron Paul movement better coverage than the neocon press, which can only splutter in outrage at the thought of an antiwar, pro-market Republican. The Nation is none too good on market economics itself, and puts in a few nasty digs in its coverage of the rising class of [...]